America’s longest war is fast becoming America’s forever war

American’s longest war—Afghanistan—is still a mess. The Afghans still do not have the support they need to secure their villages. The central government is weak and not present where the fighting is most intense. We hear the limited discussion. What is it about Afghanistan that’s so annoying? It’s avoided in conversation on a national level. Why is this war so quickly forgotten? Warfighters remain in combat and are being killed.

Foreign Policy Magazine did a tour of Afghanistan and found sad results. Here’s what a local said about the security situation in Afghanistan: “There is no security. Our children are being killed,” says Habibullah, an elder from Abdul Hakim’s family. It’s sad to think the boys I met in Afghanistan very well may be dead today. We saw young boys forced to protect their village from the Taliban. These kids weren’t older than 12, yet they’re engaged in firefights with the Taliban. That stands in stark contrast with the average 30-year-old here in the U.S. We live in a society where people cower in fear of microaggressions. The boys and other Afghan local police are fighting for their lives from the moment they’re able to shoot a rifle.

Like Iraq, we bought ourselves some responsibility in Afghanistan. When President Obama announced the war in Afghanistan was over, it was disingenuous. The war rages on in Afghanistan. In some ways, it’s worse than it ever has been before. For Afghans, the war is far from over. Tell local Afghans who have taken up arms against the Taliban the war is over. If we were to leave like we did in Iraq, we’ll experience the same failure. Afghans hope senior U.S. decision-makers learn from the mistakes of Iraq. The world has seen what happens when we don’t take action. Iraq is an example, to a lesser extent. Afghanistan will go in the same direction. The fact that it is our longest war is immaterial given the fact that our work isn’t complete. Also, we have to stomach the reality that our work will go on. It may not be resolved in our lifetime, but the possible result is reshaping a country for the better. That impacts the world.

At a time when nations are questioning their allegiance to American democracy, when Western development models are brought under scrutiny, we cannot abandon those to whom we have given our word. Afghanistan is in a strategic position. They’re also in a deeply precarious situation. We have to finish this, but find a way to limit our loss of life. Does that mean more mercenaries or encouraging an inflow of foreign fighters to help the Afghans? I don’t know, but that prospect sounds equally scary as well.

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Carl C

The civil war has already started. Shots are being fired, people are being killed, property is being destroyed.
These are not citizen riots but quickly escalating guerilla warfare skirmishes being fought by paid and organized liberal and Muslim combatants; the national guard has been called and soldiers are engaged. The fight is on and growing daily.
These riots have nothing to do with white cops killing innocent blacks and these people don't care about black people. The cops (a lot of the cops are black) killing bad blacks with criminal records is just a cover for waging war against us. It is all smoke and mirrors just like other tyrants used to stage their coups.
This civil war is not and will not be fought in open fields with the roar of canon and the charge of cavalry. This war is and will be fought in our cities, eventually with house to house fighting just like in Iraq. This is going to be every bit as dirty and ugly as Iraq and Syria. By the time the dust settles everyone in this nation will have known someone, probably many, who were killed by these nut jobs.
This is one reason I beg our veterans to stop killing themselves, this nation is going to need them, their skills, and their experience to stop the violent coup of the left and Muslims currently taking place. They are needed right now.
This is not a civil war that may happen in the future, it is an escalating war the left and Muslims have already started weeks and months ago.

Yankee Papa

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...I certainly does not come to civil war. Would not be like the last time... More like the Russian revolution... and when the smoke cleared, unlikely to find a Republic rising out of the ashes.
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...Don't know if you've read any Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle. Their fiction (from decades ago) sees an America run by rich and elite specialists. Everybody else subsidized... latest video games and tranks to keep the mob happy. Thought about that today when I saw the item below this morning...
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-Yankee Papa-

Carl C

I have been watching this for years and I can't think of anyway of saving this nation. We are admitted to being almost $20 trillion in debt with it growing daily but actually more like $100 to $200 trillion, which we can never pay off, our upper class trash is clearly above the law and do as they please, causing more damage every day while sacking our nation, our laws and regulations are insane, freedom is an illusion and tyranny is reality, and on and on and on. The same technology some hope can save our nation is being used by the left to destroy her.
It is like I said, they are only two steps away from being able to finish establishing their dictatorship, destroying the military and taking guns away from citizens so they can't be stopped with their coup.
Our only hope of cleaning up this mess the upper class trash and their liberal puppets have caused is a civil war to wipe the slate clean so we can build a new nation. I just don't see any other way and that civil war has already been started by the left and their Muslim pals. The shots have been fired, people have died, and they murder more people almost every day. If you dare defend yourself, they prosecute you. They "stage riots" or military actions for no real reason except to destroy the nation and take it over. Their excuses are lame.
Yet, many just sleep right through it like nothing is happening.
My heart bleeds for my nation but I know she has been mortally wounded, yet she still struggles to survive and care for her people in spite of our corrupt leaders. I fear the grand old gal just doesn't have much longer. The left has murdered her.

Yankee Papa

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...Well over a year before I started loitering about SOFREP, Jack Murphy and myself had been in contact about some photos that I took in Africa re "mini-claymore" mines. One day I sent Jack and some other folks an on-line letter commenting on the Republic being past its prime.
...Jack decided to run it as a guest piece in April of 2012.
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...Few changes. Last year Social Security had no increase. Stouffer's Salisbury steaks did not go up in price over the same time... though the steaks now have chicken as a prime ingredient instead of beef... -Yankee Papa-
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Carl C

This is no longer a republic. The corruption has grown to the point that it is an oligarchy run by the upper class trash, who are clearly above the law. All they need to do to finish their coup is finish destroying the military and disarm the American people so they cannot stop the coup. The Republic is dead, it just hasn't finished kicking yet.